Command time limit exceeded

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 06 Sep 2003, John Fawcett wrote:
> In the past few days I have had several incoming messages bounced due to
> Command time limit exceeded in /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/deliver.

> I have a Postfix -> Amavis-new -> Postfix -> Cyrus configuration.

Use the dual postfix cleanup setup described in the amavisd-new docs, and
configure postfix properly.  Mail will queue inside postfix (after being
processed by amavisd-new) waiting for cyrus to become available again.

> postfix main.cf), postfix bounces message. In fact the postfix/pipe log line

If you are using postfix/pipe, you are doing things wrong.  You should
be using:
  postfix ->[smtp/lmtp]->amavisd-new->[smtp]->postfix->[lmtp]->cyrus.

(unless you're using extremely old cyrus 1.5, that is)

> Sep  5 10:11:42 romolo postfix/smtpd[20899]: AF5732BEC4:
> client=localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
> Sep  5 10:11:42 romolo postfix/cleanup[20886]: AF5732BEC4:
> message-id=<60DAA6E9-DF78-11D7-B1AF-000393744734 at arcor.de>
> Sep  5 10:11:42 romolo postfix/qmgr[1708]: AF5732BEC4:
> from=<owner-mmx-openssl-users at mmx.engelschall.com>, size=4651, nrcpt=1
> (queue active)
> Sep  5 10:11:42 romolo postfix/smtpd[20899]: disconnect from
> localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
> Sep  5 10:14:43 romolo postfix/pipe[20902]: AF5732BEC4:
> to=<john at michaweb.net>, orig_to=<john+openssl at michaweb.net>, relay=cyrus,
> delay=181, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded:
> "/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/deliver")

Well, WHY is postfix bouncing that message if deliver times-out? Configure
it properly to retry such errors.

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  Henrique Holschuh